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British champion Victoria Pendleton added time trial silver to Friday's sprint gold at the UCI World Cup in Manchester Velodrome.

The 29-year old recovered from a sluggish start to set a personal best time of 33.838 seconds in her heat and top the leaderboard.

And it looked like the Brit was set for another gold until Australian rival Anna Meares pipped her to the post in the final heat with a time of 33.632 secs.

Dutch rider Willy Kanis claimed bronze while Lithuania's Simona Krupeckaite, who set a world record of 33.296 secs to edge Meares and Pendleton into second and third at March's World Championships in Poznan, could only manage fourth.

Despite her international pedigree, Pendleton insisted she was only participating in the time trial in the absence of a team sprint partner and would not waste too much time practicing for the non-Olympic event.

"I'm really pleased with that - I definitely wasn't expecting to get a personal best," said Pendleton.

"I've never been under 34 seconds before so it's nice to see such improvement but this wasn't an Olympic event so I'm not going to stick with it too much.

"I don't really want to start wasting my time on a non-Olympic event - I only raced today because I didn't have a partner for the team sprint so I thought I'd better do something - why not?"

More than the Games / Eurosport